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Boats.com
boats.com is an online advertising website based in Miami, Florida, United States. It also has operations in Fareham and Padova. The company has websites in nine markets and eight languages, listing over 350,000 boats in approximately 152 countries. History * boats.com, Inc was founded by Paul R. Rabe and Stu Johnstone, in 1999, a private, venture capital funded business located at Pier 38, Embarcadero (San Francisco), The Embarcadero, in San Francisco. In August, a venture capital funding round generated a $21 million second-round investment. * January 2000, boats.com, Inc. agreed from the Cobalt Group (NASDAQ: CBLT) to acquire YachtWorld.com, a popular online yachting marketplace, the first Internet content deal within the boating industry. * May 2004, British Marine Federation (BMF) support for boats.com European Marine Industry Web Awards * In September 2004, Boats.com, Inc was purchased by Trader Publishing Company, a joint business venture of Landmark Media Enterprises and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YachtWorld
YachtWorld is based in Miami that operates a boat sales platform with Multiple listing service, enabling professional yacht brokers, dealers and manufacturers to sell yachts. Jessica Muffett first founded YachtWorld in March 1995, semi-retiring as Publisher Emeritus in 2006. YachtWorld is now a subsidiary of Permira. History YachtWorld.com was established in March 1995. In 2000, it became part of boats.com, Inc. and in September 2004, Boats.com, Inc was purchased by Trader Publishing Company, a joint business venture of Landmark Media Enterprises and Cox Enterprises. In September 2006, Landmark Media Enterprises and Cox Enterprises split the assets of Trader Publishing and YachtWorld became part of Dominion Marine Media, a subsidiary of Dominion Enterprises, LLC which was, in turn, a subsidiary of Landmark Media Enterprises. In 2012, YachtWorld launched an iPad application. and in 2015 relaunched its websites to be full responsive. On August 1, 2016, Apax Partners acquires Dominio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
